Artist Dash Snow Found Dead

Image via New York magazine

Artist Dash Snow, who lived a hard, hard life, full of drugs, law breaking, controversy, and mystery, has died at the age of 27 of a heroin overdose. Snow’s work sometimes involved street scene photographs of the grotesque and violent, a present-day Weegee of sorts. Though he was without a doubt more inflammatory, perhaps more like a present-day Francis Bacon then. Case in point, his most recent works involved deposits of his own semen strewn across newspaper stories about crooked cops. The work was titled “Fuck the Police.” He was an established member of the NYC downtown art scene who perpetually opened peoples’ eyes, even if once opened they did not like what they saw.

via Artist Dash Snow Reportedly Dead from Drug Overdose.